Sirio Maccioni Quotes

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

We must take our friends as they are.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We have become so cynical that we are always challenging each other’s motives and in very few instances do we engage in an intelligent argument in the substance of the argument.

Understanding the other person's viewpoint is the beginning of polical wisdom,